I will make this my last post on the thread. Will just say good luck to
anyone dealing with a defiant utility. Be prepared to spend endless
hours, money on location equipment, your station basically useless for
months, documenting, and digging in for the long haul. All to get them
to do what is law anyway. The system seems to be by design to where most
will just give up. Go park your car in the middle of a local ball-field,
golf course, etc and see how quickly that impediment to that hobby gets
resolved.
Oh, I never once reported a non-utility issue in my almost 20+ years of
trying to get this 7.2kv run clean. I am happy now that mine seems to
have finally come around. I do not know for sure but think much of it
may have to do with a new CEO. Last spring, they immediately offered to
send out an RFI location guy from their supplier and emails from the
supplier were cordial too. But I am reluctant to do that as the last one
they sent out was obviously not knowledgeable and had an attitude. Thus
I found it myself with all my RFI location gear built up over the last
20 years.
Sorry, its just frustrating to hear of other hams having these issues.
Especially with the OP stating a 5 year wait. That is way beyond ridiculous.
Chuck
W4NBO
On 9/12/21 2:46 AM, Hare, Ed, W1RFI wrote:
<So let me get this straight. If hams make false complaints then the
utility is ok to blow us off.>
I never said it was okay, so i am not sure how you got that out of my
words. What I did say is that if hams make complaints to utilities
about non-utility sources, it is very possible that the utility will
stop responding to those complaints, so it is pretty important to get
it right the first time.
There are a few premises at play here. First, th utility is
responsible only for interference its equipment creates. Under the
rules, if they are causing harmful interference, it is their
responsibility to find it and correct interference they create. Some
utilities do a great job at this. In other cases, they do not have the
equipment or skills to do this, so the process will generally go much
better of amateurs can find the source. This also eliminates the
false report problem.
Under FCC rules, power-line sparking and arcing sources are incidental
emitters. As such, they have no specific limits on radiated or
conducted emissions, just a requirement that the operator of
incidental emitters not cause harmful interference. So all those
noises we hear driving around are not necessarily illegal in and of
themselves. If they are causing harmful interference, then they are
actionable, but FCC generally does not consider transitory
interference to mobile operators to be harmful interference.
Ed
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